At [[Planet Express]], [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] learn from [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]] (who's wearing a sombrero) that he's [[Mom buying Planet Express|sold]] the company to [[Mom]]. Immediately after this, a report comes on the news saying that she is now the majority shareholder, and ruler, of [[Earth]]. Mom claims everyone as slaves and sets a curfew so the crew decide to escape. Unfortunately the ship is severely damaged, with unknown reason, and needs repairs. While everyone else does something important, Fry is instructed to find a hammer. Fry dies getting the hammer but is brought back with the Professor's new invention, the [[Reanimator]] (which looks like a giant toaster). Fry keeps the hammer (for a weapon), which the Professor didn't need, and heads off to [[Media:Planet Express Floorplan (game).png|find the tools]] that are needed. After the repairs are done, it turns out that the backup dark matter engine is needed, but was pawned. Fry is given a gun and sent via the [[NNY Sewers|sewers]] (to avoid the Hoverbot Death Troopers) then works his way through [[Old New York]], the Red Light District and [[New New York]] (with a [[chicken walker]] to fight off the [[Hoverbot Death Troopers|Death Troopers]]) to [[New New York#Rook Takes Pawnshop|Rook Takes Pawnshop]].

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At [[Planet Express]], [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] learn from [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]] (who's wearing a sombrero) that he's [[Mom buying Planet Express|sold]] [[Planet Express]] to [[Mom]]. Immediately after this, a report comes on the news saying that, thanks to the sale, she is now the majority shareholder, and ruler, of [[Earth]]. Mom claims everyone as slaves and sets a curfew. The crew decide they have no choice but to escape Earth. Unfortunately the ship is severely damaged, with unknown reason, and needs repairs. While everyone else does something important, Fry is instructed to find a hammer. Fry dies getting the hammer but is brought back with the Professor's new invention, the [[Reanimator]] (which looks like a giant toaster). Fry keeps the hammer (for a weapon), which the Professor didn't need, and heads off to [[Media:Planet Express Floorplan (game).png|find the tools]] that are needed. After the repairs are done, it turns out that the backup dark matter engine is needed, but was pawned. Fry is told to retrieve the engine from the pawn shop but Mom has deployed [[Hoverbot Death Troopers]] to enforce the curfew. Instead, Fry is given a small gun and sent via the [[NNY Sewers|sewers]] then works his way through [[Old New York]]. He emerges from underground in a [[New_New_York#Red_Light_District|Red Light District]] where he finds a gun with much more fire power to fight off any attacking Death Troopers. When he reaches uptown [[New New York]] he steals a [[chicken walker]] to fight off the Death Troopers and finally makes it to [[New New York#Rook Takes Pawnshop|Rook Takes Pawnshop]].

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The Story

Act I: Fry

At Planet Express, Fry, Leela and Bender learn from the Professor (who's wearing a sombrero) that he's soldPlanet Express to Mom. Immediately after this, a report comes on the news saying that, thanks to the sale, she is now the majority shareholder, and ruler, of Earth. Mom claims everyone as slaves and sets a curfew. The crew decide they have no choice but to escape Earth. Unfortunately the ship is severely damaged, with unknown reason, and needs repairs. While everyone else does something important, Fry is instructed to find a hammer. Fry dies getting the hammer but is brought back with the Professor's new invention, the Reanimator (which looks like a giant toaster). Fry keeps the hammer (for a weapon), which the Professor didn't need, and heads off to find the tools that are needed. After the repairs are done, it turns out that the backup dark matter engine is needed, but was pawned. Fry is told to retrieve the engine from the pawn shop but Mom has deployed Hoverbot Death Troopers to enforce the curfew. Instead, Fry is given a small gun and sent via the sewers then works his way through Old New York. He emerges from underground in a Red Light District where he finds a gun with much more fire power to fight off any attacking Death Troopers. When he reaches uptown New New York he steals a chicken walker to fight off the Death Troopers and finally makes it to Rook Takes Pawnshop.

Act II: Bender

Bender on the asteroid

Fry returns with the engine and they install it, the four escape, taking the Reanimator with them. Mom converts the planet into a spaceship in order to take over the universe and is annoyed to hear that the Planet Express crew is escaping. She then proceeds to try to hunt them down, but the Earth's engines aren't powerful enough. At Sal's Salvage on an asteroid, Sal informs them that the only kind of engine that will move the Earth is a dark matter engine ("and a big ones at thats"), and she'll need the Professor to get it. The Professor informs Bender that he's now a playable character and the ship gets caught. Sal has helped out Mom by trapping the Planet Express ship in a suck beam. Bender abandons ship, in full view of Mom and her sons, then dies on impact with the asteroid and is brought back by the Reanimator, which falls on his disassembled body. He then agrees to rescue the others in exchange for a box of magazines with fembot centre folds.

On his way to rescue the crew Bender has to evade Igner in a turret, machinery activated by Larry and finally win in battle against Walt, who's in a tank. Bender deactivates the beam, boards the ship, and they escape.

Act III: Leela

Meeting the locals, on the Sun

The Professor says that he's not skilled enough to invent something to save the day; they'll have to visit his mentor and former graduate advisor Adoy, who lives on Bogad in the furthest corner of the universe. They don't have enough fuel, so Leela, who's now playable, is asked to get some. Mom catches them because she wants blueprints for the dark matter engine. They only exist in the Professor's head so she takes that, in a jar, and sends the ship hurtling towards the Sun. The ship crash-lands near Sun City. Ra-Ra the Sun King offers them dark matter in exchange for protecting his people from the Sun God and his army. Fry and Bender wait at the ship.

Leela sets up magic crystal, which severely injures the Sun God. He admits to being an "ordinary eternal omniscient super intelligent being" and explains that making robots from bones is more evil, then laughs so hard he falls into the Sun's molten surface and dies. Leela escapes the sinking temple. Villagers exit buildings and Leela returns to the ship. Ra-Ra rewards them with fuel and asks them to celebrate with him at the temple, which burns up in the background. The crew leave before he can notice.

Leela's gameplay levels:

Market Square

Left Wing

Right Wing

Temple Courtyard

Inner Temple

Act IV: Zoidberg

Zoidberg on his "horse"

Mom has hooked the Professor into the Earth's engines. She starts flying the ship around destroying other planets. The crew land on Bogad, quite literally in the corner of the universe. They meet up with Dr Zoidberg, who is making a cameo. He misidentifies a nearby animal as a horse and gets on. The crew talk to Adoy who tell them that his latest invention, the Time Tunneller, will get them back to before Mom became unstoppable. The hand crank on the machine will only turn the universe back two minutes, if turned for two minutes, so Zoidberg is sent off to find the generator.

Zoidberg reaches the generator and turns it on. Adoy sets up the Time Tunneller and the crew head back in time to Earth. Zoidberg is left behind.

Zoidberg's gameplay level:

Bogad Swamp Trail

Act V: Mom

Leela makes an escape

Leela crash-lands the severely damaged ship in the Planet Express building. They quickly fulfil a time paradox by leaving the bad ship behind and taking the good ship to stop the Professor from selling the company. They crash the ship through the window of Mom's Headquarters just as the Professor is about to sign. The Reanimator falls from the wreckage and all three are regenerated. Fry warns the Professor. Mom tricks them into standing where she can trap them. They each have to try to escape from Destructor, with several gun upgrades, as he enters target practice mode.

Fry finds a gun and soon after enters battle against Destructor. Fry wins and heads down to meet the other two. Mom’s sons are cleaning up. Igner breaks the Reanimator, which falls on Destructor's body knocking it onto the crew, killing them permanently. The Professor refuses to sell the company, but then Mom offers him a sombrero... The game ends when the scene at the beginning starts over. In other words, "here we go again".

Mom's gameplay levels:

Bender's Breakout (Bender)

Leela's Last Laugh (Leela)

Fry Fights Back (Fry)

Reception

In general, the game received weak responses, citing issues as lack of something exceptional in gameplay, but having hilarious cutscenes.[1][2], though Wired described the cutscenes as "side splitting".[3]

Adoy: Terrible. Terrible! Terrible! But there's nothing we can do about it now. So it’s a good thing you came to me!

Zoidberg: Hooray, I'm the hero!Fry & Bender: Hooray, we don't have to do anything!

Zoidberg: Killed, eh? I'm no doctor, but that sounds painful.

Adoy: Goodbye heroes! I'll never forget you, whoever you were!

Farnsworth: Did I do something funny?Mom: No, I'm sorry; I should save my evil laugh 'til after you sign.

Fry: Oh no! The reanimator!Leela: Bummer! We'll have to be careful not to die from now on.Bender: You had to say that. [Destructor falls on them.]Farnsworth: Damn it Mom! No one kills my crew except for me! You're going down.Mom: Oh please! You wouldn't hit a lady!Farnsworth: I suppose you're right. Though I would do this! Hoyyaa!Mom: You broke my hip!Farnsworth: I don't care.

Continuity

The Professor cites the fact that the crew never charges anyone as a reason for selling the company.

Additionally, the character and planet names in the game are the Star Wars names backwards.

In Act II a flying saucer contains one of Elvis Presley's costumes and a spacesuit with a helmet that is shaped like his hair.

Ra-Ra the Sun King's name is based on Ra, the Egyptian sun god, though his clothing is Mayan (People of the sun)

Gameplay

The game is an Action/Platformer which includes many typical elements of platformers including platforming, puzzle solving and enemy combat.

Goofs/Glitches

At one point the Planet Express hangar is large enough to house two ships.

The only real problems are associated with the invincibility cheat:

Using a suicide booth with the invincibility cheat turned on removes the Fry character model from the screen but doesn't kill you.

When playing as Fry in the sewers level it is possible to freeze your console by using the invincibility cheat, then getting caught by the tentacle mutant. At this point the game can be unfrozen by typing in the invincibility cheat again to deactivate it, allowing Fry to die.

While these cheats should be unnecessary, you can try this yourself with the following codes:

Tips and Tricks

The items in the Planet Express level are indicated on this floorplan.

When in the sewers get fairly close to the pipe tentacles, shoot and then run through. You get about three seconds to run past. In area 8 you have to shoot the tentacles and jump past.

The subway has club troopers that have spiked clubs. So press R1 to lock on, shoot, if they get too close start to back up.

During the fight against Destructor, when a mosquito missile comes out of his red swirled hatch wait until it opens again and hold down square and release it to shoot a power blast, use it about 5 times and then the last cutscene will start.

Types of Generic Enemy Characters

As these are groups of minor enemies introduced to be killed in the game, every appearance is a debut appearance, except for one of the Red Light District robots, which appeared in the background of "Obsoletely Fabulous".

Game to Episode Edits

The DVD of The Beast with a Billion Backs includes the episode contained in this game as a special feature, as well as a commentary track. The episode is cut together from some of FMVs unlocked by collecting Nibblers during gameplay; (almost) all of the in-game cut scenes, the credits and the attract movie, which contains game play footage.

An opening sequence is added, with the caption "The Lost Adventure", which is also the name of the special feature/episode.

Fourth wall breaks (most references to more lives, the "game over" screen and discussion thereof, mention of playable characters) are mostly removed, with the exception of Zoidberg's cameo.

Most brief scenes with minor characters, such as enemies, Mom's sons and the pawnbroker, are removed or edited.